Kenny Beats Quotes

There's a guy on YouTube named Mac Lethal - he spits hot fire.

I've been trying to nail it into everyone's heads that I feel like I am the most versatile rapper.

Rap is only one end of a whole spectrum of verbal play and virtuosity. Rap is geared for aural pleasure.

Hip-hop is not all '2 Chainz' - although '2 Chainz' is awesome. How he does that with metaphors, I don't know.

Big Sean is one of the dopest rappers, of my lifetime for sure. Like, Big Sean is one of the best rappers. Period.

Nas' storytelling was just fire.

Longevity always come from lyricism. From the people who can actually rap.

I'm just a Harlem dude that can rap, and people dig my style and persona.

Lil Wayne, that was one of my main influences, music-wise, because of his wordplay and metaphors.

A good rapper is an amazing thing to me. It's like a 17th-, 18th-century poet.

Kendrick is phenomenal. I've never tried and practiced a song that was as hard as when I practiced Kendrick's verse on 'Control.' He's a genius. I think that people do recognize it.

My favorite artist was probably Jay-Z. He's the one who inspired me to start writing music. He's a wordsmith. He's very clever. He uses a lot of similes and metaphors. He's a beast of a rapper.

I still to this day get the most inspiration from rap lyrics.

If you're really a rapper, you can't stop rapping.

Not everybody is a great rapper; not everybody lives for the art of lyricism.

But I've been freestyling and messing around with rhyming since I was 13. That's when I really started listening to hip-hop music.

I still very much appreciate the storytelling of the best rappers.

A lot of the hip hop artists don't write music. They write words.

I think that rap is narrative, when it's done right.

I came up in hip-hop, where people value the ability to tell it straight.

I have to be able to rap. I don't have the look. I don't have the typical slim-dude, fancy-clothes look. That's not me. I have to be able to rap - there is no other choice, or else I get eaten alive.

Big Rube was on my first album and some of my mixtapes. His words are so powerful. I want to speak every word he says into existence. I wanna be a part of that! I wanna be a part of greatness. His wordplay is great to me.

Drake, I'd like to collaborate with. He's a phenomenal lyricist. Probably the best rapper in the world at the moment. I love Kanye but there's something about Drake; he's more straight up, really clever and really poetic and metaphorical - I love that. He's just clever.

The first album was 99 percent hard core to show you I was the best rhymer in the world.

You don't have to be a good singer any more if you can rap well.